The Ladybird Book of the Hipster (Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)

The Ladybird Book of the Hipster (Ladybirds for Grown-Ups)

Joel Morris

Language: English

Pages: 56

ISBN: 0718183592

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub

From bestselling authors Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris - a nugget of wisdom in the phenomenal Ladybirds for Grown Ups series. This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. Also available: How it Works: The Husband How it Works: The Wife How it Works: The Mum The Ladybird Book of the Mid-Life Crisis The Ladybird Book of the Hangover The Ladybird Book of Mindfulness The Ladybird Book of the Shed The Ladybird Book of Dating The Ladybird Book of the Hipster

Morris, 2015 All images copyright � Ladybird Books Ltd, 2015 The moral right of the authors has been asserted ISBN: 978-1-405-92576-1

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available as an app. Hipsters like art. This sculpture, called ‘All the Dances I have ever Danced and in the Order I Danced Them’, sold for over �11,000,000 at a bespoke car-boot art fair. It is made of sock. Niven is a non-linear campaign provocateur for a brandwidth trendship engagement agency. Like most hipsters, he has no office, and carries his modified electric typewriter from coffee shop to coffee shop, on his motorised unicycle. He dresses like this all the time. Hipsters think

The East London Clapping Orchestra. If you look carefully at it, you can see none of the details. At hipster cocktail kitchen aitcH2ooEau, all the drinks are made with nothing but water. Here, two mixographers are preparing a Coldplay’s Next Album, a cocktail made with fourteen different sorts of water. The most highly prized water is Japanese fen tears. Phoo is an action poet. She narrowcasts what she calls “political demo-biography” using vintage technology. To make it more difficult to

eventually put it up for sale on a website whose address will not work. Hipsters are always on the look-out for new beards. These hipsters have travelled to the Arctic Circle to photograph Norwegian fishermen’s beards. One of them is weeing his tag into the snow. Neena likes to wear hats made of forklift tyres and coloured balls. This one was designed especially for her by her friend Grayson Perry, who lives in the boat above hers. What hipsters like best about their favourite music is that